CAI, Qiong, Erik WELK, Chengjun JI, Wenjing FANG, Francesco M. SABATINI, Jianxiao ZHU, Jiangling ZHU, Zhiyao TANG, Fabio ATTORRE, Juan A. CAMPOS, Andraž ČARNI, Milan CHYTRÝ, Süleyman ÇOBAN, Jürgen DENGLER, Jiri DOLEZAL, Richard FIELD, József P. FRINK, Hamid GHOLIZADEH, Adrian INDREICA, Ute JANDT, Dirk N. KARGER, Jonathan LENOIR, Robert K. PEET, Remigiusz PIELECH, Michele DE SANCTIS, Franziska SCHRODT, Jens-Christian SVENNING, Cindy Q. TANG, Ioannis TSIRIPIDIS, Wolfgang WILLNER, Kubota YASUHIRO, Jingyun FANG and Helge BRUELHEIDE. The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide. Journal of Biogeography. Hoboken: Wiley, 2021, vol. 48, No 5, p. 1240-1253. ISSN 0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14074.
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Original name The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide
Authors CAI, Qiong, Erik WELK, Chengjun JI, Wenjing FANG, Francesco M. SABATINI, Jianxiao ZHU, Jiangling ZHU, Zhiyao TANG, Fabio ATTORRE, Juan A. CAMPOS, Andraž ČARNI, Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Süleyman ÇOBAN, Jürgen DENGLER, Jiri DOLEZAL, Richard FIELD, József P. FRINK, Hamid GHOLIZADEH, Adrian INDREICA, Ute JANDT, Dirk N. KARGER, Jonathan LENOIR, Robert K. PEET, Remigiusz PIELECH, Michele DE SANCTIS, Franziska SCHRODT, Jens-Christian SVENNING, Cindy Q. TANG, Ioannis TSIRIPIDIS, Wolfgang WILLNER, Kubota YASUHIRO, Jingyun FANG and Helge BRUELHEIDE.
Edition Journal of Biogeography, Hoboken, Wiley, 2021, 0305-0270.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.810
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/21:00121927
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14074
UT WoS 000629319100001
Keywords in English climatic niche; co-occurrence data; deciduous species; Fagus; geographical range size; niche breadth; niche evolution; phylogenetic signal; temperate forest flora; vegetation-plot data
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Abstract
Aim: This work explores whether the commonly observed positive range size-niche breadth relationship exists for Fagus, one of the most dominant and widespread broad-leaved deciduous tree genera in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Additionally, we ask whether the 10 extant Fagus species' niche breadths and climatic tolerances are under phylogenetic control. Location: Northern Hemisphere temperate forests. Taxon: Fagus L. Methods: Combining the global vegetation database sPlot with Chinese vegetation data, we extracted 107,758 releves containing Fagus species. We estimated biotic and climatic niche breadths per species using plot-based co-occurrence data and a resource-based approach, respectively. We examined the relationships of these estimates with range size and tested for their phylogenetic signal, prior to which a Random Forest (RF) analysis was applied to test which climatic properties are most conserved across the Fagus species. Results: Neither biotic niche breadth nor climatic niche breadth was correlated with range size, and the two niche breadths were incongruent as well. Notably, the widespread North American F. grandifolia had a distinctly smaller biotic niche breadth than the Chinese Fagus species (F. engleriana, F. hayatae, F. longipetiolata and F. lucida) with restricted distributions in isolated mountains. The RF analysis revealed that cold tolerance did not differ among the 10 species, and thus may represent an ancestral, fixed trait. In addition, neither biotic nor climatic niche breadths are under phylogenetic control. Main Conclusions: We interpret the lack of a general positive range size-niche breadth relationship within the genus Fagus as a result of the widespread distribution, high among-region variation in available niche space, landscape heterogeneity and Quaternary history. The results hold when estimating niche sizes either by fine-scale co-occurrence data or coarse-scale climate data, suggesting a mechanistic link between factors operating across spatial scales. Besides, there was no evidence for diverging ecological specialization within the genus Fagus.
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